Lot #: 349
Price Realized: $570.00
($475 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare Coggle-Decorated Stoneware Match Safe, probably Thompson Pottery, Morgantown, WV, circa 1880, wheel-thrown, tapering form on flared base, decorated around the base with coggled serration and around the lower body with a coggled design of a crossing vine and spots. Surface covered in a light-brown wash over reddish clay. Presumably fired within a sagger or larger piece of stoneware. Provenance: Recently found in Morgantown, WV and likely of local origin. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. H 2 5/8" ; Diam. (at base) 2 5/8".
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